A
man who had travelled in
foreign lands boasted very
much, on returning to his own
country, of the many wonderful
and heroic feats he had
performed in the different
places he had visited.

Among
other things, he said that
when he was at Rhodes he had
leaped to such a distance
that no man of his day could
leap anywhere near him as to
that, there were in Rhodes
many persons who saw him do
it and whom he could call as
witnesses.

One
of the bystanders
interrupted him, saying:
"Now, my good man, if this
be all true there is no need
of witnesses. Suppose this
to be Rhodes, and leap for
us."